[PSY230H1] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 32 pages long Study Guide!

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY230H1
• Professor: Dan Dolderman

Document Summary

Charles darwin publishes first formal statement about evolution (1859), biology adopts evolutionary paradigm. Francis galton studies families and twins, beginning the biological study of individual differences, launches eugenics movement. Studies of temperament and individual constitution begin, focused on body types and emotional patterns, dominated by behaviourist and other nonbiological approaches. Hans eysenck proposes brain-based model of personality, hormones, temperament, and brain neurotransmitters begin to receive significant attention. Studies of effects on the brain of drug abuse, pollution, and genetic diseases begins in earnest, fields of toxicology and psychopharmacology develop. Evolutionary psychology takes root, evolutionary predispositions to sex, love, hate, jealousy, and aggression are studied, more sophisticated views of genetics and evolution develop, complex relationship between biology and behaviour studied. Personality psychology begins serious study of genetic bases of individual behavioural patterns, human genome is unravelled, ethical challenges arise. Russian physiologist ivan pavlov investigated in differences between individual"s nervous systems. Knew organism must respond appropriately to orient adaptively in their environment.